is it illegal not to get a payslip from an agency if you havent actually signed on with them although you do full weeks with them.
Dunno, but if you haven’t signed anything with them about pay rates or a contract they don’t have to pay you anything unless you can prove you did the work. It’s your word against theirs.
Always try and get a payslip - it is the only way that you can make sure you are paying the right amount of tax and national insurance. Any money they pay you will need to be declared to the Inland Revenue. (Unless of course it is cash in hand!)
Don’t know if it is the law to give a payslip but in my opinion, any agency that does not give you one, is probably not worth working for.
My knowledge of employment law isn’t as sharp as it once was but…
You don’t need anything in writing for a contract to be complete. In English law a contract can be verbal ( in the case of employment, a written contract must be provided by the end of the 13th week of employment).
If they offered you the work verbally and you accepted it the contract was complete and legally binding.
Payslips. If you carry out any work as an employee and you are paid for it the employer must provide you with a pay advice. Whether the company’s internal procedures were complied with is irrelevant unless compliance with these procedures was mentioned in the contract (for the moment the verbal one, and it’s doubtful that’s what happened)
I would guess that what has happened here is that you don’t exist on the agency’s payroll system yet as you haven’t filled in the necessary paperwork and until that happens the system won’t be able to acknowledge your existance.
Your post doesn’t mention whether you got paid or not.
no problem about getting paid in the bank every week without fail.
they do take tax and n.i out though
mmm, so why won’t they provide you with payslips I wonder?
I’d gently point out their obligation towards payslips.
On a practical note, if you don’t know what they’re paying you how do you know they’re paying you everything you’re due?
Qhunter:
mmm, so why won’t they provide you with payslips I wonder?I’d gently point out their obligation towards payslips.
On a practical note, if you don’t know what they’re paying you how do you know they’re paying you everything you’re due?
Good point 
. Time for a quiet call to the IR me thinks.
If the deductions aren’t going to the Taxman, then I think you will be liable for them. Protesting that the agency paid will mean nothing if you haven’t got a pay slip that shows it being taken out.
Qhunter:
My knowledge of employment law isn’t as sharp as it once was but…You don’t need anything in writing for a contract to be complete. In English law a contract can be verbal ( in the case of employment, a written contract must be provided by the end of the 13th week of employment).
If they offered you the work verbally and you accepted it the contract was complete and legally binding.
You don’t have a legal right to a written contract, but you are entitled to a written statement of employment after one months service. Apparently there is a difference. 
muckles:
If the deductions aren’t going to the Taxman, then I think you will be liable for them. Protesting that the agency paid will mean nothing if you haven’t got a pay slip that shows it being taken out.
Not necessarily.
My mother (an accountant of some 40 years) had a case a few years ago with similar circumstances.
She was acting for a sub-contractor in the construction industry and the main contractor did not supply the tax vouchers. The sub-contractor kep his bank statements showing his pay. The Inland Revenue investigated the main contractor (who had tried to fiddle both the Inland Revenue and the sub-contractor) and the Inland Revenue gave credit for the amounts deducted from the sub-contractor without seeing any of the vouchers.
Of course, if a payslip is provided, it will save a lot of hassle!
Rob K:
Qhunter:
mmm, so why won’t they provide you with payslips I wonder?I’d gently point out their obligation towards payslips.
On a practical note, if you don’t know what they’re paying you how do you know they’re paying you everything you’re due?
Good point
The Inland Revenue take all calls of this nature very seriously - I know from experience!
killsville:
Rob K:
Qhunter:
mmm, so why won’t they provide you with payslips I wonder?I’d gently point out their obligation towards payslips.
On a practical note, if you don’t know what they’re paying you how do you know they’re paying you everything you’re due?
Good point
The Inland Revenue take all calls of this nature very seriously - I know from experience!
I bet 
. Since when has the Government ever been out of pocket 
. The toppest of priorities for sure .
Try and get a payslip - keep asking for one.
Five years after working for a company I got a visit from Inland Revenue fraud inspectors asking where I had been for 2 years as I had paid no tax in that period. To cut along story short, the firm I worked for went bent and did not pass any deductions over to the tax people. Showing them my pay slips solved alot of aggro and I was credited with the ‘missing’ years as far as NI and tax was concerned.
If they are a ligit company there should be no problem in them supplying you with a pay slip.
pleased to say situation sorted out got all pay slips for work done 